Monday, November 19, 2007

Things to Make and Do

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We are having everyone for Thanksgiving this year.

Yay!

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This is what our kitchen looks like. Our 1951 O'Keefe and Merrit takes center stage. I love that bad dog about as much as I have ever loved a physical thing. I have been elbow deep in its guts and I have taken its temperature and I have washed its dirty hind-end and coaxed out the brilliant blue/green flames froma clogged burner.

Let me tell you, you can do major surgery on that big bad body with little or no fear.

Cast iron. Porcelain. The Grillevator.

Ah, yes.

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A couple of weeks ago I stole the graphics from Nikki McClure and painted our fridge. (Hey, I sent her an email asking permission and even showed her a photograph, but nothing back from her yet....).

Anyway.

I like it wicked bad.

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A guy at work I like sat with me in my office for an hour and let me go on and on about my kid. He just listened and let me rant and rave.

He's a good guy.

The kind I thought there were a lot of before I got wise.

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I love and I love and that's an old story.

Still, I love.

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Shit, I probably love you.

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One thing I do, is I love the little nest my wife and I have cobbled together out of loveand spit and odd taste and a hundred bucks.